to the capital account of my morning mr. believes the repetition of. what a protest nobody seems to know. that never a pepper sprayed the face quite hard the argument that they're being overly dramatic.

are you guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight goes to john boehner it's been a mixed bag of first year for the speaker of the house on his watch we've come close to a government shutdown and congress almost let the nation default on its debt all because the speaker and the president couldn't come to a deal that would include new revenues which led to the creation of the super committee now leaders on capitol hill including john boehner are feeling the heat over the stalled negotiations of the super committee the group only has a few weeks left to reach a deal to cut the deficit and if no deal is reached and several triggers will kick in and that means that social programs democrats love and defense projects that republicans love all the on the chopping block so it is weekly news conference boehner was asked about reports of the supercommittee was looking at tax increases or douce the deficit as. signaled that revenues might be part of the plan which her

republicans is a big big deal so that's what i said we see luke russert after the tax increases boehner was seeming to put on the table but it violate grover norquist new taxes pledge a pledge that almost every republican in congress has signed. our focus here is our jobs we're doing we care about you get our economy moving and get people back to work. for them after about some random person in america you know what i said come on john your group grover norquist is he's just a random guy that is total b.s. for a few years ago might not know who grover norquist is he's the president of americans for tax reform on his web site there's a pledge about not raising taxes and it reads a.t.r. organizes the taxpayer protection pledge which asks all candidates for better and state office to commit themselves in writing to oppose all tax increases and one hundred twelfth congress two hundred thirty eight house members and forty one

senators have taken the pledge on the state level thirteen governors and one thousand two hundred and forty nine state legislators of taking the pledge so can better really wants us to believe that two hundred thirty eight house members of signed grover's pledge but he's still just some random guy in the speaker's no star growing up for that comment listen to how he tries to weasel out of the question as luke russert continues to press him on the issue. or you know it was very personal so our forces are. not talking about somebody as personality. or they believe. what he stands for yes you know i think. that's what our conference is supposed to chart because we believe that choice for her our economy and put americans out of work. good job deflecting there mr speaker but what legislation has the g.o.p.

house passed to create jobs well that's right you have it since taking control this year the g.o.p. a voted to defund n.p.r. p.b.s. and planned parenthood this week they voted to reaffirm in god we trust as the national motto in the same time period they voted down president obama's jobs bill along with a smaller jobs plan that would have given states funding or higher. teachers cops and firefighters as well as yesterday voting down a bill that would have funded infrastructure spending creating more jobs and so now john boehner wants to stand before the american people pretend that he doesn't know who this grover norquist guy is or what his plan is all about he's just some random guy not worth talking about that is a gold based lie mr boehner surely knows who mr grover norquist is because arguably he's more powerful than the speaker himself amongst his republican colleagues and that's the problem with this one man has so many members of congress right by the balls to the point where they will stall anything so as not to pursue his pledge so republican house speaker john boehner looking into reporters' space acting like this is just some random guy now we're talking about even though he arguably could

take a lot of the blame for our do nothing congress we're going to give and it's tools on board. now this sunday thousands are expected to descend on washington d.c. to protest the approval of the keystone x.l. pipeline something that some of called game over for the climate we spoke about the project many times of on this show pipeline would run seven hundred miles long from canada right across the u.s. to the gulf of mexico would carry oil extracted from canada's tar sands extracting crude from tar sands it's a process that a lot of environmental medalists say produces incredibly high levels of greenhouse gases a nobel peace prize recipient top scientists celebrities lawmakers have all asked president obama tonight a permit for this pipeline and it will be his decision this is tuesday he announced that he personally would say yes or no on numerous reports of come out showing conflicts of interest between state department employees and transplant a lobbyist the e.p.a. is even criticized the state department's official environmental evaluations so

could this sunday be kind of a turning point or will the e.p.a. the state department and the president came into industry pressure or discuss this with me is bill mckibben writer activists and founder of tar sands action and three fifty dot org his latest book is earth making a life on a tough new planet helping you so much for being here and they are good. to be here so the last time that people came out to protest this case from the white house and went on for a matter of two weeks over a thousand people were arrested so tell me how that's going to differ from the actions after the yes that was the largest civil disobedience action in about thirty five years in this country sunday very peaceful it will be the first time people have attempted to ring milk white house human beings we'll see if we can get enough protesters and i think we can there seem to be buses converging on washington from all around the country this is becoming the biggest environmental flashpoint in decades and it's very exciting to see it happen. one of the things

that they have to prove here in order for this pipeline to be afraid of is that it's in our national interest that can you tell me how can our national interest well it's not only not in our national interest it's not in our planetary interest there is twenty of the nation's top scientists pointed out in a letter to the president the state department was supposed to do an environmental review of this pipeline but instead of doing it they contracted it out to a company it's a pipeline builder trance candidate chose for them and the company that they chose was a company that lists tranced candidate as one of their major clients in essence trance canada got to review itself which explains perhaps why a environmental review of a seven hundred mile pipeline to the second biggest pool of carbon on earth found that it would have no environmental effect that's ludicrous and we understood a little more how ludicrous it was this week when reporters found one twenty something year old at the state department had been the only person running this

environmental review person wasn't even an environmental expert they were called a diplomatic career and after a couple of years of the only person overseeing it they were shuffled off to nigeria this is not in a serious effort at all and it's time for the president to take ownership and do the job why is it that it has been a serious effort and do you think is it negligence is it is it not sort of not proving that a democratic administration isn't necessarily a climate screen friendly administration we're going to find out how climate friendly it is one person we haven't heard from is president obama so far they are all companies have run this thing but the president retains the power to stand up to them and block it this thing's called a presidential permit that he needs to sign off on before this pipeline can be built because it crosses international boundaries we'll find out if all those things he said in two thousand and eight time to when the tyranny of oil. and my

administration the rise of the oceans will begin to slow and the planet will begin to heal beautiful things will find out how real they were in fact when we go around the white house every banner that will be carrying just quotes from president obama in two thousand and eight how hard do you think this is in terms of defining what kind of a president and here he is and what kind of policies he has how it's going there are a lot of things that this president said while he was campaigning here that he hasn't helped the way in from foreign policy to you know talking about domestic policy including let me address to which one is i think it's going to be very important in the next year among people who came out to vote for him last time in more than vote who came out to work for him last time many of them were young people and they listed climate change as one of the biggest issues facing the country they won't be able to muster their enthusiasm about this that's in the short run in the long run i think there's very little doubt that the greatest question historians fifty years

from now will ask about this president is whether or not he dealt with the biggest problem humans face now and they've ever faced climate change so far the record is mixed at best this is a man who opened huge swaths of months and to coal mining a fellow who just a few weeks ago said b.p. could get back to work drilling and call for new and were allowed drilling in the arctic to resume. this is his chance to show that he's back in the game to show that when people really do appeal to him if he's asked us to do when we get involved in politics he will answer and i'm hopeful but there are so here is something here because obviously the top thing on americans' minds right now is the economy or they want to worry about the wars that we're fighting over ride or the threat of climate change how it's been affect us in the future they need to be able to put you on the table right now that he will put to pay their mortgages and so there's a lot of lobbying. for the pipeline so this is something that's all. on the web

site by the building trade unions where they play upon the momentum of the occupy movement they say hollywood's elite one percent should stop flying to d.c. and speaking out against jobs for america's ninety nine per cent so what is the tactic here lee i think it's possible or movements and trying to i mean this is a real problem here and i think it's very sad to see people trying to co-opt power occupy wall street it should be pointed out that everybody who's been sort of working in these big broad progressive movements is very much against this pipeline from bernie sanders to several of the big trade unions just yesterday the union of domestic workers in this country joined in pointing out among other things that many of their members come from places that are already disappearing under water turning into drought stricken deserts because i'm afraid to spell some of the myths that they post on this website and the mess that you see in commercials that are being played all across the country because they say that immediately it's going to

create twenty thousand you live it sector jobs they say that this is going to reduce our reliance on foreign oil as well let's talk about jobs there's only one study of this not paid for by transplant ok and it was conducted in fact the labor movement there cornell global labor institute what it found is that pipeline would create about three thousand temporary jobs if you built with and it would eliminate about that many jobs by raising gas prices in the midwest it would be you know essence a wash in the short term and in the long run clearly it will keep us delayed us for some years from getting to their job rich transition to wind and solar energy think about how many jobs one should have built that there's a pipeline create new and that's the point of a pipeline it just lies there in the ground doesn't lead us all to work on a couple seconds left so quickly foreign oil is going to reduce our reliance on it and what about china who has expressed interest in who can do that will give it to we don't do it well that. first of all this will seems like it's mostly going

abroad it's going to be refined in texas and sent to latin america second of all to get it to china you have to have a pipeline west to british columbia and the first nations the indigenous people who have fled and credible opposition are pretty convinced that they'll be able to block those pipelines for the next ten or twenty years given enough time canada might find a way to get this out but given enough time we have to hope that the world will come to its senses about global warming and recognize that this is precisely the kind of thing that simply can't do i but i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and you know we'll see how this turns out is circle around the white house on the new year that you know the truth clark thanks so much. coming up next we have our fireside friday and that happy hour debate stirs perhaps take something i tried last week protestors last everything so fast that car makers are going to have to build why here i thought that.

was the police that he was. testing nobody seems to know. that never ever sprayed my face by talking to the argument that they're being overly dramatic. you know sometimes you see a story so you think you understand it and then something else you hear sees some other part of it and realize that everything is ok. i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

mr. to tonight's. your. story printed in the wall street journal the headline read u.s. tightens drone rules and this story said the cia has made a series of secrets concessions and thrown campaign after military and diplomatic officials complained the large strikes were damaging the fragile u.s. relationship with pakistan this was of course one of those secret concessions apparently made during the summer that officials anonymously told the wall street journal about and let's not forget it's against the law it's a leak classified or secret information unless it's high rating officials who want the information to get out but let's go back to the story that shows just how out of touch our government the cia the media and the american people are and it comes to comprehending the damage that our drone strikes do you know one of the biggest problems of course is that the cia doesn't even publicly acknowledge its drone

strikes they think that they can do it all in secrecy and no one is going to notice some people in pakistan or yemen or somalia or killed now for the most part very few people here in the u.s. do actually notice because records of strikes are kept secret by the government unless of course they have some success that they want publicized like the killing of anwar the locky and when it comes to civilian deaths they keep the numbers real low there the cia claims that there have only been sixty civilian deaths over the years and the media well they don't bother that they get in deeper they just take the official word and they move on but if you ask locals in pakistan and they won't tell you the same story they'll tell you about their friends their neighbors their relatives that have been killed they'll tell you about what it's like living life drones are circling around their homes all day and strike in the middle of the night and a british reporter clive stafford smith recalled his experience meeting with passion tribal elders living along the pakistani afghan border they brought their young sons along to witness the meeting when civilian deaths are brought up they

explain how hard and how dangerous it is to try and get the real numbers. and the pakistani military seals areas off from journalists the one man who was trying to investigate on his own was captured by the taliban and then held on suspicion of spying for the united states so then one of the young boys said that he would investigate but he would go out and gather evidence to protect his family from future harm. before this boy had a chance he was killed by a cia drone strike with his twelve year old cousin and that drone strike was this week that's right well the wall street journal is reporting that during the summer it was decided that there should be new rules for drone strikes that there should be a launch more selectively where's the proof of any of those changes the u.s. has stepped up its efforts against the haqqani network just in the last one or two months alone they've watched numerous drone attacks some reporters will tell you that one hundred twenty civilians have been killed in the last few days others will detail deaths of tens at a time but it's hard to know what really happened nobody but the government has the truth and they won't leave it to us so to hear that there's some internal dissent

or disagreement between top ranking military and state department officials well it's a welcome sight at least there is some recognition that unmanned killing machines raise legal and ethical questions but the most part our officials our president our secretary of state are all on board with using drones using machines they kill from a far way the decision is made thousands of miles away and a button is pushed and nobody gets their hands dirty it's not right and it needs to be examined in order for us to properly examine the use of drones the civilian deaths that are caused by drones we need the media and we need the people to be zealous about it because the more that everybody stands by pretends that they don't know that it's happening all the more guilty that we all are playing a role in allowing our government to be an international killing machine with no representations.

time for half the hour and joining me tonight is lauren lyster host of the capital account on r t and andrew blake writer thanks for joining me guys welcome back so happy our miss laura lister we miss you and thank you that i've missed many happy hours with you ok so this is i mean a lot of people have done parodies thus far when it comes to occupy wall street and the one percent being total jerks about it but this was pretty good this is done by the cult comedy picture show take a look. everything's like. sports. but you see me you. would. like to say to your club it's. like you gotta get. used to it. i mean i know everybody loves that song right like.

to be against. years ago so little time with your point would survive a good song. if they did a good job i think that's what they have going for them i was a little disappointed with this but i feel like usually they get really people get really creative with like the economics at the paper when they're maybe have just gotten to the recent t.v. ones but they do ok you know i am leaving my role level i guess you could say the reason t.v. videos but i've had a little herman cain in the mix herman cain was. on the watch the video i did i actually watched it this time was like five minutes ago when i laughed at. the video right there why do we have the banks on the condos yeah exactly yeah i get it i don't get the law yeah right well i think this is then capitalizing on occupy wall street. whatever get more people to go out and how often i say what do you say

that he thought i said that sounds nothing like a lot while i played and then i didn't go when he wanted to do it i'm doing ok and i maybe i'm a little oh yeah ok so. let's move on to the next to this i really love this story so this guy ok play the clip i think explains it pretty well and then we'll get into whatever is in it. i got it i watched it and locked up in the rockville county jail because watch this you decided to give the bill collector i taste of their own medicine so i thought of calling them and i'll call them and call them and call them on today's loss will you please stop calling here. i mean everybody goes out of notches telemarketers are the bill collectors of people who just call you all the time and thing is that it wasn't even him that they were calling for they kept calling for some other guy's name when he was telling them this is not me this is not me so then he picked up three different phones and started calling them fifty times

a day and random arrested and i think that's total b.s. i completely agree i cannot believe that this guy ended up in jail for this i have to give him so much credit though because he couldn't be happier he would find a reporter it's the legal piece he's going to have to pay or the best money ever spent who doesn't want to do something like this only just to get them back absolutely this guy is my hero how did he get there number anyway. i mean i mean i think it shows a caller id is clearly brilliant clearly i think that this man is now you know little bit of a folk hero i think exactly i think he's going to start going to copycats and how kind of like this new trend of taking back the bill collectors i've heard you know like you know quite a few stories like this before people they just send one hundred like faxes from some number he's the ninety nine percent. percent ok. that's a good clip of you go to. it so this one is really

messed up this is if you want to talk about political correctness going too far people just not letting children be children and you look at what happened to these two kids. when fourteen year old nicholas martinez hold good friends at southwest middle school his mom says he got suspended i think that was the most bizarre thing i'd ever heard that we were a culture of family that's what we do. are it's what happened is he just went past his friend in the hall gave his friend and the principal how can we behind them and then call them into the office and suspended them and they say because like is the can for friends the mom was obviously defending her son they said our focus is on learning therefore we cannot discriminate or make an opinion on what is an appropriate hug what's not an appropriate hug you may think is appropriate another person may view as inappropriate so basically so they don't have to do any research and look into the eggs and tell whether there's like some grabbing going on. no

hugs allowed gog's allowed in school this is for you or you. know it's all good i do think this is ridiculous and that was what i was going to say and pop and then i remember that this story is in florida and we're talking about florida every weird story like probably ninety five percent of the ones that make it on happy hour all happen in florida so i actually think they have a fair argument that they you know they can't take it upon themselves to discern what the normal hug a weird hug because we're start happens in florida. i maybe this is a good thing is that they know they are wrong with me did you not how go your friends know you are and i don't think it doesn't go around the halls hugging their friends. don't go on your i'm sure you didn't get any how did some high school enter but we're talking. i do think that he was like are you really are you kidding . me i think we need to do is look into the boulder status excuse me gold or status whether or not there is a boner. as

a son even know where to go. to anyway kids should be allowed to hug other kids everybody just take a little step back kids are doing a lot worse than hugging when they're fourteen years old and think that that's going to stop them from going home and having sex they are very young so i say. ok let's move on to the last story of the evening which is a little thing of that luxury carmakers are calling. my ride because people are getting so fat they're actually having to expand their car so mercedes for example are strengthening the grand grab handles of the doors making it easier for passengers to lift themselves out of the seat poorish is installing electrically powered steering columns that lift up when the engine shuts off making it easier to get out of the vehicle and honda is widening it's not luxury maker. up to two inches and widening its buttons to allow for quote. i believe

actually they wrote sausage thinkers this is just sad i can't believe that luxury car makers are stooping to this level i would understand more of the mass retailers but maybe it's on snobby i just don't think it's very good for their image but who drives a luxury car is probably people. are and how in fact people rich people i mean people with money people that likes it or you're going to go oh i'm a guy i was a totally bad stereo inside but i mean you're going to get really bad this is where you go and yeah it's a fry. but i would have five there are a lot of wealthy people that are overweight just as there are a lot of not but i'd like to get interesting because ashton designers have gone this direction they've refused to kind of like adjust their size into account for a growing population i just think it's interesting that luxury car makers i've decided to i have to wrap it up unfortunately guys have a great weekend they got i mean that's a great night so thanks for tuning and make sure they come back on monday after this not for david swanson is going to join us to talk about his new book on the world alvarado war in the meantime don't forget to become

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